Editing Avantiak, The Ravenous Eye (section)

===A Canker At The Heart===

Despite the support of the noble families, Avantiak was not allowed to lead in battle anymore. Instead, he was supporting the eldar war engine behind the scenes. Noble families with youngsters enlisted for deployment, would often seek him out in his quarters, agreeing that should their child fall in battle they would sacrifice another to Avantiak in return for the warrior's revival. No questions were asked about how Avantiak accomplished this task, but those that inexplicably returned from Avantiak's halls were different. The change wasn't imminently evident, but as more and more squads were revived over the millennia side effects started to emerge.

Squads that wished for their continued existence started capturing prisoners and sending them to Avantiak's rooms regardless of casualties. Weekly, aspect warriors and guardians, who had earlier utilized Avantiak's services, would flock to him like carrions to dying flesh and in the night the screams and moans would pierce the streets of Celyennath. Some of pleasure, some of pain.

As the dead in battle grew, so too did the amount of eldar gathering each night in the autarch's rooms also grow in number. Accusations were made against Avantiak, but the Argvyn family once again took it upon themselves to defend the Autarch. He had saved so many lives and continued to do so. How could the craftworld condemn a hero, whose work was the life-blood of Celyennath itself? 

And so Avantiak's work continued in peace.